BOYS^ FARM CLUBS 



good farming which will inspire his community and forecast 

 his manhood possibilities for farming on a large scale. 



The club members who have grown their acres of com 

 and secured their live stock should immediately take up the 

 question of how best to use the acre of land which has been 

 in com and also how to feed their live stock most economically. 

 They should practice soil building and animal feeding. What- 

 ever animals a boy may own, some good grazing will have to 

 be provided. The boys who are growing pigs would make a 

 great mistake if they were to pen up the pigs and feed away 

 the com to them. It would not be a balanced ration for the 

 pigs and the meat would cost more than it could be sold for. 

 The acres which have been in corn should be seeded to small 

 grain or legumes. In some sections it will be better to sow 

 the acre to a cover crop for grazing and to be turned under 

 in the spring. Following this treatment, prize acres of cow- 

 peas, soy beans or peanuts might be grown. In other sec- 

 tions it will be advisable to seed together such crops as wheat 

 and red clover, rye and crimson clover, rye and bur clover, 

 or vetch and oats. Hundreds of boys in some of the States 

 have already made fine demonstrations along these lines. They 

 have taken more pains with the inoculation than the average 

 adult farmer does. The result is that they have taught the 

 important lesson of soil inoculation in their communities. 

 Perhaps it would be a good idea for a boy to put one-fourth 

 of his acre in clover or vetch and the remainder in rye, oats, 

 barley, or wheat. If he decides to plant clover, only a small 

 area should be undertaken until inoculation is secured. Inas- 

 much as he is manipulating this acre for the sake of feed- 

 ing his live stock and of improving the soil, he might further 

 subdivide it and put one-fourth of an acre in rape or some 

 other crop to be used exclusively for grazing purposes. In 



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